ElZouhery
Personal projects

Things I build on my own time

Things built outside client work — a developer tool, a piece of furniture. Each started as a problem I hit often enough that building the fix was cheaper than working around it.

VS Code Extension Live

Composure

See the stack your compose file actually declares.

Docker Compose files lie to you — overrides, includes and environment interpolation mean the file you're reading is rarely the config that runs. Composure resolves the whole stack, tells you which file and line set each value, and lets you edit without your formatting being rewritten underneath you.

What it does

  • Resolves the full Compose project with overrides, includes and env interpolation applied
  • Provenance tracking — every value traced back to the exact file and line that set it
  • Non-destructive editing via byte-splicing: comments, quoting and formatting survive (98.6% byte-identical round trips)
  • Ten classes of diagnostics — port collisions, missing dependencies, undefined variables, exposed credentials
  • Dockerfile editing with stage visualisation, preserving continuations and escape directives
  • Docker Hub image search with version lookup
  • Staged changes with line-level diff preview before anything is written
  • Headless CLI subcommands for automation and CI/CD
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Hardware design Built

Laptop Drawer Rack

I used AI to design a piece of furniture, and a carpenter built it from the drawings.

Front elevation and airflow section of the laptop drawer rack
The layout it produced
The finished four-drawer laptop rack in place
The finished unit

I needed somewhere to keep four laptops that wasn't a stack on a shelf, so I designed one — with Claude, in a conversation, with no CAD software open. It worked through the layout, the airflow, and the setting-out, then produced a dimensioned drawing set a carpenter could build straight from. The unit in the second photo is the result. The point isn't the cabinet; it's that the useful range of these tools reaches well past writing code, and most people haven't tried pointing them at physical problems yet.

HardwareCAD / DXFAI-assisted design

Using one of these?

Bug reports, feature requests and "this broke on my setup" messages are all welcome.

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